10/22/2026
Deep Gratitude for shareing our podcast on THE ADOPTION GAP with Chris Fraughton
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-adoption-gap/id6815789971?i=1000797331239
Alice Chun went from teaching architecture at Columbia to founding Solight Design after her son’s asthma diagnosis pushed her research toward clean solar technology. Her origami-inspired Solar Puff folds flat and pops open into a solar lantern, a safer alternative to toxic kerosene for the 1.6 billion people without electricity. Alice shares how her lights reached Haiti, Puerto Rico, Dominica, and Ukraine, and how that work led to Hillary and Chelsea Clinton’s Gutsy and support from Bob Iger. We also dig into the business: losing B2B revenue when USAID was dismantled, negotiating big-box distribution margins, and why she thinks of her product as “individualized infrastructure.”